Principal Software Engineer: Automation & Quality Leader

Disney Entertainment; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Rights & Accounting team in California. You will lead regression test automation, establish quality standards, and mentor engineers to improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability across distributed cloud platforms.

You will own the quality strategy, collaborate with product and engineering partners, and help shape the overall technical direction of the platforms powering Disney’s media

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with test automation
• Proven lead on large cross-team efforts
• Expertise in test automation across unit/API/integration/e2e
• Experience diagnosing and eliminating test flakiness
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and quality gates
• Strong fundamentals in at least one modern language
• Cloud-native tech and containers
• Data-driven quality with dashboards

Responsibilities

• Own quality engineering and automated regression strategy for Rights & Accounting
• Set baselines and targets for test coverage and stability
• Stabilize and optimize automated test suites
• Expand automated coverage across testing layers
• Define scalable test automation architecture and CI/CD practices
• Mentor engineers and promote quality practices across teams
• Perform additional duties to achieve business objectives

Skills

Test automation

Quality engineering

CI/CD

Java/Kotlin/Python/JS

Cloud-native

Docker/Kubernetes

Testing frameworks

Leadership

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

JUnit/TestNG

Pytest

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

REST Assured

Pact

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS (EC2/SQS/S3/Lambda)

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Rights & Accounting team in California. You will lead regression test automation, establish quality standards, and mentor engineers to improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability across distributed cloud platforms.

You will own the quality strategy, collaborate with product and engineering partners, and help shape the overall technical direction of the platforms powering Disney’s media